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May 18q6.1
Synhalonia, Tetralonia, Xenoglossa, etc., but it seems impossible to accept SLIC~
wholesale lumping.
Melissodss tristis Ckll. is much later than Swcera tristis Mor., but I do not care to rename it until convinced that it is desirable to merge Melissodes in Eucera. Sucera
arctos n. n. is Founded on rfmina fr., not of Ilnlicla~, but the name is unnecessary, since urslntt is a synonym of eiiavata.
M. 'brcvicoruis Cr. becomes E, cressonii. &'. ciilifomica Sm, becomes JE. smithii.. Pocialirius (Anthopho~-a) is made lo in- clude as subgenera, Clisudon, Entechnia, Habropoda, etc. Habro$oda mi& is
changed to P. crestonii. Auth. cartonariu Cr. becomes P. infernnlis. Our Nomads
ruira Prov. becomes .(V. erythraeii D. T. N. integ-;,a, Rub. becomes N. integerrima D. T. fuuctatii Cr. becomes N. fro-
van-cheri D. T. Chelostoina is treated as a subgenns of Eriades. Osmia qt4acfri-
deniaia Cr. becomes cressoniz' D. T., but this change is unnecessary, since it is a synonym of 0. coitjuncia Cr. (3. 'farva
Prov. becomes 0. @tzrvv/a D. T. Mega-
cfitle curto~ttria Cr. becomes M. ti-rsso?zli'. Mr. Fox's three Jamaican species of Mega.- chile are wrongly said to be from Indiana. M. simfleis Prov. becomes M. si"?np/icwima D. T. Anihidizttn ve~~z~stmn Cr. becomes c~essouii. Coelioq~s brcvi's Cr. becomes C. c~essouil, but the author overlooks the fact that Cresson himself long ago changed the name to ultr'fis. Pliilereinus is changed to Ammobiitcs, which has priority of place on the same page of Latreille.
The name
Ainmobates has been very frequently used in Europe for many years.
Although the
papers of Robertson and Coville are duly quoted under Psithyrits(or A-fiaihtis) eZntus, the author did not examine them sufficiently to learn that the insect in queston was a 8 Bomtus. Trigona and Tetragona are given
as subgenera of Melipona.
Trigotm nigra
Cr. becomes M. cressonii D. T. Apis
melhjfca L., 1761, is to be called A. mellifcra L., 1758.
It must be confessed that it is not entirely creditable to our knowledge of tlie literature of our subject, that the author of this new catalogue has been able to supersede SO
many names of American species on
grounds of preoccupation. It is fair to
state, however, that in some instances we were aware of the prior names, and changes would have been proposed on this side of the water sooner or later.
In a few cases
the changes had nctually been made, and
our author was not aware of it.
T. D. A. Cockerell.
New Mexico Agric. Exper. Stat.ion,
March 3, 1896.
CHRYSOBOTHRIS FEMORATA AND
CLERUS +-GUTTATUS.
Wood piles are always attractive collect- ing spots.
Chryso'botJiris feworaia Fab. is
a frequent visitor, and runs about very
briskly, especially on hickory and oak
logs. Early in June, 1894, a specimen of fernorata was seen and heard to produce
a very distinct. noise by striking rapidly with Hie mid of its abdomen on the bark
of an oak log. Tapping with the finger
nail seemed to attract other Chrysobothris on the same log, but it may have been
only a coincidence. Unfortunately the
tapping specimen could not be caught to
determine its sex, but it was probably a malc, mid the tapping a call or challenge. Last summer no opportunity occurred of
observing Chrysobol.hris, but so common
a species ollci-s> a good chance for all interested to make further observalions on this interesting' tapping habit.
On the 26th of June, 1895, on a fresh
spruce log was noticed a specimen of CZerus 4-gitttui-tts Oliv. It had in its grasp a good-sized Scolytid. either Xyleborue or Tomicus. It held the victim with its front and middle legs, and kept turning it round and round, biting at it all the time, and raising itself on its hind legs. Finally it seized the Scolytid firmly beneath where



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the thorax joins the body, and dropping
on its legs with its prey between them,
ran rapidly under the log before it could be captured. The incident explains in a
measure the constant presence of the
Clerus on soft wood logs. They are
looking for food. F. C. Bowditch.
TUTT'S BRITISH MOTHS.- In a vohnne on
British Moths just published by Routledge (London) Mr. J, W. Tutt treats the principal members of that group in England in accord- mice with the latest views on their classifi- cation as outlined by him in a paper read last year to the Entomologicsil Society of London. To some of the groups he appends a table of their i.ime of appearance in the different stages, larval food plants, frequency, etc. A dozen colored plates and about fifty cuts, most of them rather rude but charac- teristic, help the beginner. There is a great deal of information packed into the 368 pp., but discriminating tables for the separation of the groups would have rendered the work more serviceable.
NOTES.- In the recent memoirs of the
Zoolo$cal society of France (v. 8. p. 1-140, 1895)' Charles Janet follows in minute detail all the steps in the formation of a complete nest of Vespa c~abro, with numerous figures. It will be found very valuable for comparison in studying 0111- native wasps' nests.
With the issue of part xxiv, Moore's Lepi. doptera Indicit completes its second volume, in which the Sxtyrinae are concluded, the Elymniinae and Amathusiinae treated, and the Nymphalinfie only begiiii. Apparently it will take ncsirly or quite another pair of volumes to complete this last subfiimily. The present part contains illustraLions of the eiirly stages of Cliaraxes and Eulepis. Two figures are given of apparently full rorn [nriwe of I1,, atfiamas but with totully different ma,-kings, to~wbich no i-cference appears in the text.
H. F. Wickham prints a list of 700 Lake
Superior Coleoptei-a, adding their exti-alimi- tal disiribi~tiori, in Vol. 6 of the Davenport Academy's Proceedings.
We regret to notice the death early in
March, at the age of 85, of Dr. Juan Gund- Inch who has lived since 1839 in Cuba and devoted himself for more than half a century to the study of its natural history and espe- cially its entomology and ornithology. His rich rind unique collection was secured some years since by the Havana Institute.
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